Written in bone : buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Title:
Written in bone : buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Author:
Walker, Sally M.
ISBN:
9780822571353
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2009.
Physical Description:
144 p. ; col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Contents:
Grave mysteries -- Social status/work/making a living -- Buried in cloth and wood -- Health, nutrition, and cause of death -- The luxury of lead -- The lead coffin people -- Who were these people? -- In the flesh.
Abstract:
Takes readers through the process of investigating human remains found at colonial-era sites to reveal causes of death, match remains with the names on the historical records, and determine the skeletons' gender, age at death, nationality, and even economic standing.
